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New York City area markets overflow with fresh, local salad greens; home cooks haunt farmers' markers in search of sugar snap peas, cherry tomatoes, baby zucchini and other seasonal ingredients to pile into salad bowl; photos (M)
French telecommunications company Alcatel reports second-quarter operating profit of 21 million euros ($24.1 million); posts net loss of 675 million euros, compared with loss of 1.44 billion euros in 2002 period; graph (S)
Legal experts see accord with regulators in which J P Morgan Chase and Citigroup agreed to pay nearly $300 million to settle charges they helped Enron defraud investors will make it harder for banks to recover money they lent to Enron and to reach favorable settlements with its shareholders; say other creditors will probably try to recover money from banks directly (M)
Vice Chairman at Merrill Abruptly Decides to Retire The executive vice chairman of Merrill Lynch, Thomas H. Patrick Sr., left, retired abruptly, surprising a Wall Street community that had given him credit for masterminding Merrill Lynch's radical cost-cutting effort over the last three years. The sudden departure of Mr. Patrick, 60, cements power ever more firmly in the hands of E. Stanley O'Neal, the firm's chief executive, who relied on Mr. Patrick's behind-the-scenes support with the Merrill Lynch board when he succeeded David H. Komansky last year. [Page C6.]
American soldiers in Iraq conduct dozens of raids and seize more than 175 suspected Saddam Hussein loyalists in his hometown of Tikrit, in what military calls accelerating drive to flush him out of hiding; forces conduct 58 raids in 24 hours, garnering clues to Hussein's whereabouts; hunt coincides with new audiotape, apparently by Hussein, referring to deaths of sons Uday and Qusay; Iraqis seized include Hussein bodyguard Adnan Abdullah Abid al-Musslit and Tikrit security chief Daher Ziana; photo; map; Gen Richard B Myers warns Tikrit-Baghdad area is still 'war zone'; former Baghdad University dean Dr Muhammad Abdullah Falah Alrawi is shot to death in apparent revenge for his close links to Hussein; Iraqi Governing Council announces rotating chairmanship (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 2003, covering July 30, 2003.
Soundtrack
Chingy
Beyonce
Brooks & Dunn
Ashanti
2003Steve Hislop, Scottish motorcycle racer (born 1962)[†]
Robert Steven Hislop was a Scottish motorcycle racer. Hislop won at the Isle of Man TT eleven times, was the British 250cc Champion (1990) and lifted the British Superbike championship on two occasions.
2003Sam Phillips, American record producer, founded Sun Records (born 1923)[†]
Samuel Cornelius Phillips was an American disc jockey, songwriter and record producer. He was the founder of Sun Records and Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where he produced recordings by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf. Phillips played a major role in the development of rock and roll during the 1950s, launching the career of Presley. In 1969, he sold Sun to Shelby Singleton.
2003In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.[†]
The Volkswagen Beetle, officially the Volkswagen Type 1, is a small family car produced by the German company Volkswagen from 1938 to 2003. One of the most iconic cars in automotive history, the Beetle is noted for its distinctive shape. Its production period of 65 years is the longest of any single generation of automobile, and its total production of over 21.5 million is the most of any car of a single platform.
2003Three years after the death the last Pyrenean ibex, Celia, a clone of her is born only to subsequently die from lung defects. Within minutes, the Pyrenean ibex becomes the first and so-far only species to have ever gone de-extinct as well as go extinct twice.[†]
The Pyrenean ibex, Aragonese and Spanish common name bucardo, Basque common name bukardo, Catalan common name herc and French common name bouquetin, was one of the four subspecies of the Iberian ibex or Iberian wild goat, a species native to the Iberian Peninsula and immediately adjacent southern France. The Pyrenean ibex occurred in the northeastern part of the species' range in the Cantabrian Mountains and the Pyrenees, in northern Spain and the far south of France. This subspecies was common during the Holocene and Upper Pleistocene, during which their morphology, primarily some skulls, of the Pyrenean ibex evolved to be larger than other subspecies of Capra pyrenaica in southwestern Europe from the same time.
In 2003, the world population was approximately 6,420,361,634 people[†]